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Chicago examiner vol vi no 258 a m saturday october 17 1908 16 pages price one cent d , e """ a "* c " rl 30 cents pa moata democrats make a secret attack on postal savings bank plan use name of bankers com mittee as subterfuge to obtain vote attempt to hide identity send circulars to country fi nanciers and prepare to spring coup rt'lillaui j bryan ln his campaign for i.he presidency has made a widespread but secret attack upon the effort of the people to obtain postal savings banks even though such banks are favored in his own platform through his managers at the auditorium annex mr bryan ls endeavoring to ally the small bankers of rhe country against the postal savings bank idea offering them ns an alternative the deposits guarantee plan which bis managers say will enable tiie banks to keep the deposits the appeal to tho bankers has been made with the utmost secrecy every precau tion was taken to keep them from snon lug that it was an appeal by mr bryan nt all the apparent effort was to make the Illinois state bankers association seem responsible and it was made lv su li a way as to force the directors of the country banks to vote either for a postal bank or the guarantee plan without any alternative in tbat appeal tho bryan managers make lie dire promise that if mr bryan is elected president bis success wl.l mean the end of the effort to secure postal savings backs in the circular sent the bankers the jnestlon is put to them clearly thus evc.y rote east for Taft ls for a postal baviugs bank every vote cr.st for bryan is for a well guarded guaranty of deposit law instead .'. a postal savings bank again lv the bryan circular the bankers are urged to favor bryan because his plnt ijini stands for the guaranty of deposits us cgaiust the postal savings bank the bryan appeal has been made to bankers only and then the presidents and directors of the big banks were omit ted from the list to which the circular was rent appeal to selfish interests on its face the appeal ls to the selfish interests of the bankers for the question is put thus bankers must make a choice whether i the money of the community ls to be de posited m the postoffice or whether lt i shall be deposited m their own banks no campaign document has ever been sent out with greater efforts to conceal its identity and authorship than those made ln behalf of the bryan circular it j vas only the room number given as the ; tiddress to which replies were to be sent | that showed it as a campaign document u all and country bankers were not sup posed to be familiar with the room num bers of the democratic headquarters at the annex and although the whole scheme was distinctly one in mr bryan's interest and was made by his managers the names of none of those managers appears upon | either the appeal or stationery upon which it w.ih sent on the other hand apparently every ef fort was made to give the impression that j a purely non-partisan appeal was being i made the circular itself and the post . curd upon which a reply was asked as veil as the envelope in which the circu lars were sent out all bear the anony mous address of the bunkers commit tee room uoi auditorium annex chi cago 111 lowa committeeman's work room 1164 at the annex lt chauces is that of myron d king auditor of the democratic national committee but he was not the person who really undertook the alliance of the bunkers martin j wade national committeeman from lowi and head of the bryan labor bureau las the matter m charge m fact he admitted last night that he had sent out the circu lars and also that he is getting the re the circulars were sent out at the time ihe jllinois state bankers association was m session here on oel'her 13 ap parently the intention was to give the bankers the impression that the appeal to support the bryan plan in preference to the postal savings bank proposition eiitie from that organization along with the appeal to the bankers was sent postal cards asking them to vote on the question of whether they preferred the guaranty plan or postal savings banks and when the first inkling got abroad that ach an appeal bad been made and that such a vote was being taken it was denied point blank that the bryan headquarters hnd any thing to do with lt or knew any thing about it it was only when bankers who had received the circular made them pti'.dic that the real truth was learned mack's act reveals scheme the first intimation of what the bryan managers were doing was given in the private office of chairman norman e mack of the democratic natloi t commit tee mr mark asked m f dnnlap sec retary of the finance committee who was ' then present to rend a letter to several uewspaper men the purpose of lt being to siior that the small hankers are with bryan it was from Â» small bauk in lowa irj'e not given and stated that seven of ac nice directors favored the guaranty abruzzi buys 60,000 worth of jewels at home and disappears believed m rome they are wedding gift and that he is bound for united state rome oct i*s the duke of the abruz zi's whereabouts is absolutely unknown here but it fc fully expected that he will soon turn np in america a report f:#ni milan stales thai le lias bought jlic',ooo worth of jewels from a turin firm which has brought them from paris especially for bis inspection these it is surmised are intended as a wedding gift before leaving his ship the regina eleua the duke presented each officer with a pair of jeweled sleeve links the news papers here publish contradictory reports as to his present location and all evi dently are mere conjecture all informa tion is refused at his liouse near turin and at the ministry of marine the decla ration that no engagement exists provokes mirth here it is stated here that miss katherine elkins has had private instruction iv the catholic religion and has already been secretly received m the catholic church it is stated that the count of turin whose nominal destination is london is really ou his way to new york to meet the abruzzi and wituess the marriage cere mony policeman electrocuted while fixing a light patrolman meets death when he uses feet on lamp policeman edward hennessey of the waren avenue station wo found dead early yesterday morning on the sidewa.k beneath tho elevated tracks of the pan handle railroad at rockwell and fulton streets he was electrocuted m an at tempt to repair a defective arc light i is the belief of tlie police that hennessey when he discovered the light not ai:r;iing attempted to repair it the only approach to the light would be from the top of the structure which is more than ten feet above the ground the policeman lt is believed hung suspended from the bridge and attempted to jar the light with bis feet in doing this he was fatally shocked convent instead of jail for girl letter writer young woman who puzzled postal officials for years to become nun cincinnati 0 oct ig.-krna mccai mont the mt healthy society girl con victed of mailing anonymous letters that puzzled federal authorities for eight years will spend the remainder of her life ln 1 convent her sentence to-day to eight months m the miami county jail was sus pended pending the fulfillment of the promise of miss mccnlmont's friends to place her in the convent of the good shephetd miss mccalmont heard the sen i tence with the same stoicism that char acterized her demeanor when found guilty lof sending improper letters after she has i served a probationary period at the con i vent miss mccalmont will become a nun sothern arrives from london with straw hat thought it comfortable declines to discuss wife's divorce suit new york oct 16 e b sothern â€¢ the actor wore a straw hat to-day when he arrived on the hamburg-american liner deutschland he wore it all the way i across to the great amusement of the american passengers who knew that the open season for that style of headgear lv new york closes september 15 they were wearing straw hats m london when ' i left ana this hat is very comfortable ' i said sotuern he had not heard that his ; wife virginia hatned had been refused a divorce from him ln reno nev because she failed to appear ln person and ask for it and did not care to discuss the matter infatuated youth held on bad check charge oliver roth arrested on request of rich st louis father oliver h roth said to be the sju of a wealthy manufacturer of st louis was arrested last night by detective sergeants mullen anil burns of the central station after be hud given an alleged worthless check for 15 to an official of the american can company who is a friend of the pris oner's father roth the police say came to Chicago to join a woman with whom be is infatuated his father urdered his ar rest he is twenty-two years old roth said the check cashed is a good one kern made Chicago criminals pawn says ex-chief john j badenoch former police head tells how thugs were freed calls him menacetocity declares man who again seeks state's attorneyship blocked authorities as state's attorney for four years jake kern turned more big crooks and thieves loose upon the people of Chicago than any state's attorney before or blnce his time m that ofliee this was the charge made yesterday by john j badenoch president of the j j badenoch company commission merchants who was chief of police under mayor george b swift for two of the four years kern was state's attorney kern's record does not entitle him to the consideration of the voters of chica go said mr badenoch more than 100 of the worst criminals in this part of the country were given their freedom by mr kern after policemen had worked for months and risked their lives to bring about their arrest xue evidence was sufficient to convict m every one of these cases to which i re fer the magistrate before whom these prisoners were taken for a preliminary hearing m each case bound him over to the grand jury under heavy bonds the grand jury returned an indlctmeut against him but the case would never come up for trial freed the dangerous criminals i am not considering the prosecution of j minor criminals but the big thieve j burglars hold-up men and desperate char ; actors whose photographs are m the j rogues gallery who had been arrested i not once iuit time after time these i were the men jake kern turned loose i upon the public thus nullifying the work i of the police the state's attorney's ofllce ls the 1 court of last resort so far as the police i are concerned when the case against any of these criminals who had the friend ship . f jake kern was reached kern or one of his subordinates would appear nnd move to have the indictment nolle prossed there was nothing left for the jndge to do the doors of the jail were thrown open and the thug or thief walked out to begin anew his career of crime these cases are a matter of public record the disposition of each case is shown on the books of the criminal court and the public has access to these records if it is desired to learn what kind of a man is asking to be returned to the office he held twelve years ago action not due to sympathy i would not say anything if mr kern's sympathetic nature had led him to give hack their freedom to men and women who tnrned thieves through dire necessity if he had nolle prossed a case against a youth because it was his flrst offense or an old man because of his age personally i feel friendly toward mr kern and he does to me as far as i know i am not a politician i will not pretend to say what kern's motive may have been i did not know but i had my opinion others can guess about it the same as i did my opposition to kern ls not because of party affiliations it is because we do not want a man in the state's attorney's office who will defeat justice by nullifying the work of the police department there have been good democratic state's attor neys and i would not say a word against any of them were they to run fo the office again as a citizen of Chicago how ever i believe kern should be defeated ! fifteen in audience borah doesn't speak senator's fisk hall meeting m evan ston turns out a frost when i'nited states senator william e j borah of idaho walked into flsk hall evanston last night to make an address on republican policies be found an audl ence of exactly fifteen persons the sena tor had been engaged to speak by the j northwestern university republican club j posters hnd been heralding hla coming for four days and handbills were circulated at the university yesterday announcing the great republican orator the sena tor's disgust was plain forrest hanna presideut of the university republican club explained fifteen persons were not sufficient to merit an address from one so di tiugulshed so the meeting was ad ijourued morrisey president of new railway association grand master of the b r t will re sign place on january 1 p h morrissey grand ma er of the brotherhood of railroad trututnen was elected president yesterday of the ameri can railroad employes and investors association mr morrissey will resign f he office of grand master to take effect jau [ vary 1 after which date he will give j his entire time to his new dut Â» . the association was organized recently to create a better public feeling toward rall raads and to oppose legislation that would ihe inimical to the railroads and employes ' mr morrissey has been an official of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen fori ! nineteen years â€” five us flrst as?>tant grand j ii aster and fourteen ns grand master m . public beggars pacific to be left unprotected i roosevelt orders fleet to at lantic to show faith m japan washington d c oct 16.â€”presi dent roosevelt has ordered the pacific beet to the atlantic ocean to give indis putable proof to tl japanese of his belief ln their protestations of friendship as well 'â– as to convince the american people of his utter disbelie of complications ln the far east likely to lead to war diplomatic conditions have been such since the atlantic fleet read 1 the pacific 1 that the president believes its full mls-i slon has been accomplished the pacific fleet will leave magdnlenal bay about december 1 for the three ! months cruise around south america on | approximately the same date the grep atlantic fleet of battleships will sail for the atlantic from manila via the suez canal and the mediterranean they will meet about the flrst of next april off j guantanamo for record target practice i with the sailing of the two fleets decern ' ber 1 the pacific coast will be left naked ito its enemies if there be any such the ; ! few warships left on the coast will not be i ! more than sufficient to do police duty ! ; among the seal waters of alaska should : i they grow unruly and defy the law the pacific fleet under admiral swin born is on its way to magdalena bay from a cruise to hono'ulu and samoa upon its arrival at magdalena bay it will engage in battle practice abont the same time the atlantic fleet will hove similar practice m manila bay at the | completion of the battle practice at mag j dalena bay the pacific fleet will 6tart for the east arriving off guantanamo iv time for ttie spring record practice should the atlantic and the pacific fleets meet at guantanamo with the ves sels now comprising the atlantic squad ron which will have record practice also lt will mark the assembly of almost the efltire american navy and will be one of the greatest gatherings of naval vessels ever held Chicago woman in white house play mrs lou wall moore gives example of greek dancing washington oct 16 1n a picture of wonderful color made by the red nnifanns of the marine band the blue and gold of army and navy officers the brilliant toilets of washington's most exclusive society women and the classic dress of ben greets woodland players mrs lou wall j moore of Chicago arrayed as a greek j maiden presented a figure to lac that marked her as distinct from the nsetr.l c her presence on the stage on th white house lawn was not absolutely essentia ito the presentation of the playlets past j doras box and king midas she i.p i peared to iuustrate by ex imp â– , the danc ' ing of the ancient greets abou 2 : 000 broker arrested as check swindler detectives seek another of alleged gang which de frauded business men suspected as a member of a gang of check and draft swindlers who have de frauded many wealthy chicagoans ln the past six months howard l browning ai 'â– stock and bond broker at 153 la salle j street and fiscal agent of the twentieth century window company an arizona ' corporation was arrested last night by de tectives johu hill jr of the hill na-i j tional reporting company 240 la salle j street acting for several persons who have : i been swindled had obtained a warrant in i municipal judge dicker's court at the har i rlson street station yesterday charging browning with obtaining money by a confl dence game j browning until a year ago was presl â€¢ dcnt of the browning manufacturing ! company of milwaukee wis motor nianu j facturers lie denies he ls connected ; i with any gang of swindlers and that if ' anything wrong has been done by him i he says it was unintentional i according to george w haines of the i \ hill national reporting company last ! ijune browning gave jasper n stillson j â– a downtown saioorketper and restaurant owner six drafts for amounts aggregat i ing 1,481 which were made out on the massachusetts banking and mortgage company of boston which refused to honor them when they were presented the drafts were drawn by foster hoop er Chicago representative of the muni cipal bond arm of e m deane & co 643 j first national bank building and were given to stillson iÂ«y browning lieuten ant sullivan of the oentral station said hooper is being sought for four other business men were swindled america and japan in pacific steamship war orientals cut rates to eliminate the united states route san francisco cal oct 16.â€”com mercial war has been declared m the pa cific ocean between japan and america the nippon yusen kaisha the most pow erful of the japanese lines and betvily subsidized by the government and the pacific mall steamship company are the rivals the nippon yusen kaisha cut its freight rate 20 per cent and unofficial ad vices say even this figure has been cut m half m the last few days the lowering of rates by their japanese rival has re-j suited m an order from the pacific mail i to its agents m the orient to meet any i reduction the japanese want to drive their competitors from the pacific and then hnndle the freights of the atlantic coast which now go to the transcontinental rail roads with a direct line of steamers be tween new york and yokohama by way of the suez canal they have made heir plans for the suez line and it appears that tbelr firdt move is to cripple the american warships hunt for missing aeronauts british cruisers join german vessels m search follow ing balloon race special cable to the examiner berlin oct 16 the exhaustive search i ' being conducted by the german admiralty â– for the two missing balloons that took i part m the great international race faas so far met with little success the fleet ! iof torpedo boats assisted by the survey ; j ship zleten are steaming in radiating j j lines from heligoland to the english j ! coast word was received here to-day ! that three cruisers of the british home : fleet which are now at queensbery scot laud bave been ordered to assist ln the '. search tor the missing aeronauts there is now little doubt that the herge ' sell was lost ln the north sea a message from the missing aeronauts has been i picked up near osterwanne ln hanover province the message which is without i dute and written on tuesday is as fol ! ows : hergesell 9a m height 2.100 meters direction and place uncertain probably iutar the coast foertsch i a report from hull england to-nlgbt states tbat the german balloon plauen was picked up in the north sea wednes i j day night by an english trawler the ! weather reports show that at that hour and place the wind was blowing from the southeast which undoubtedly drove both balloons toward the open sea the hergesell and the plauen with twenty-seven others started monday in au eudurance contest the hergesell ls now the only one that has not been accounted for there seems little donb.t that the win ners announced yesterday will be accepted by the aero club but as yet the officials m charge of the race refuse to make any official statement until hearing from col onel schaeck wbo made the record flight in the swiss balloon helvetia but who it is said lauded m shallow water thereby faiiing to fulfill the rules of the race which necessitated landing on terra firmu w e corey and his wife snubbed by his sister ignored m wedding list but first wife is invited braddock pa oct ib ellis if you do this thing your way and mine will lie far apart if i should ever have a home of my own you will never darken my doors miss ada corey sister of the -. head of the united states steel corpora tion made this remark to her brother on learning that he had arranged to have his wife laura cook corey d vorce him in order that he might marry mabelle gilman the actress miss corey is about to marry charles f aufham mer and the invitation cards sent out do not include w ellis corey his first wife laura cook^^irey however is in vited by the sistj^b^mircn of honor and has accepted relief train destroyed by forest fire 22 are dead cars leave track m plunge through wall of flame m michigan fate of scores unknown fifteen bodies taken from wreck others from houses m same township ; copper country ablaze two towns m lower penin sula wiped out many others m peril detroit mich oct 16 that the fifteen refugees burned last night with a rescue train will be but a small proportion of the total death toll of the forest fires is apparent to-night already twenty-two persons are known to be dead and scores are miss â– ing m a vast section that is no i ! more nor less than a seething ur:.;u ' two towns have been total - de > stroyed and no count can be made o \ the farm hoases that ha c teen burr - jthe property loss will run icro tha jinillions i and the end is not yet the fiatr a i are still raging m a constantly widen ] ing area and complete news of the :' actual tragedies m their path may i ' never be forthcoming i , wrecked train a pyre ' j the burned rescue train was earning refugees from metz township in i'resyue isle county whleti lies lv the northeastern i part of the lower pculusula it was sent over the detroit & mackinac itu 11 way the catastrophe occurred midway betweec metz and the village of i'osen two families m metz township ar known to have been wiped cut aside from those on the train john nowlckl and bis 4 | wife an aged couple whose home wa ' ' within a few rods of the spot where the â€¢ train was burned and henry kempt bis ' wife and two of their three children died i m the ruins of their homes another sot ' '. of kempf is missing and probably waa itt j clneraled also ' | that many more of tte inhabitants ot ' i metz died iv the hopeless endeavor to tight their way through the roaring flames ana i dense smoke which surrounded them on every side seems certain some of thosi ! who managed to get through say the dvfi cars of the relief train were filled witn ' men women and childien and their bouse ! hold goods â€¢ tarry to save goods . ! fifteen bodies were found ln the charred â€¢ remnants of the cars perhaps a score of men bave straggled into postn a vil ; lage a few miles away the clothing burned from their backs tbelr bodies seared and bla kened and their lung 1 t choked with smoke engineer foster i i eyes were bunted out in the awful fligtp i through the tire and c'ouductor klnvlll ! is m little better shape the anxiety of the villagers to save their ; household goods probajly cost the live i of many of their number the relief train couslsting of three box cars and two stee i gondola cars reached metz lust night ll i the villagers had clambered aboard a r once they might have escaped but many 1 of them insisted on saving some of possessions and the train was delayed loading these ' heroic dash is fatal two miles south of mcl ter saw high walls of flame on of the track a crossing . utilized s a lumber yard sod bad been piled lv thoi i ja track these were all on the only hope was m a id dash h engineer jerked ttn thr v and the train rocked forward bu â– hi tho center of the ro.tr lie â– rails loosened bj the hi and the train jolted over the au into it burned-out culvert stop ln an instant the tra on fire there was little thought ol rescuj leaped froai the blazli i d o-d up the track shielding their faces from the blaze some of tbem go tlirough j many others did not a women and children die of the fifteen who failed to leave '"^| cars eight were children and three v.er;^b women john kouieezuy his wife ano^l three children the oldest only three yearijh of age died together m the horrible trap mrs emma hardies and ber three chll a dren the oldest nine years the youai am eight months suffered the same fate anil awm so did mrs george cicero and her twiia^fl babies & mrcmatw arthur ut uftlat refuge jfl contirjued o 2d pago 3d column li weather forecast m wl Chicago and vicinity partiy jptf f\aj3 cloudy saturday probably showers c fl s \ by sunday night and monday con y y a tinued warm followed bf cooler urn jjjjj sunday nigh brisk southerly winds mtt dont lop around home xn and expect a job to y come to you go after it thru a situation wanted ad m the examiner show em ployers that you mean business the insertion of your ad m the examiner will entitle you to the services of the examiner employment exchange 70 washington st us fifth ay 776 milwaukee ay htnrfcfimmal qmtbmmwmwm lÂ»nniiiin~y is don't worry ffl ' vtyt about that lost article it's so j*;v fytis easy to recover it by inserting a p*^k v"4 small ad m the examinees lost v j w and found column m j phone randolph 2500

Chicago examiner vol vi no 258 a m saturday october 17 1908 16 pages price one cent d , e """ a "* c " rl 30 cents pa moata democrats make a secret attack on postal savings bank plan use name of bankers com mittee as subterfuge to obtain vote attempt to hide identity send circulars to country fi nanciers and prepare to spring coup rt'lillaui j bryan ln his campaign for i.he presidency has made a widespread but secret attack upon the effort of the people to obtain postal savings banks even though such banks are favored in his own platform through his managers at the auditorium annex mr bryan ls endeavoring to ally the small bankers of rhe country against the postal savings bank idea offering them ns an alternative the deposits guarantee plan which bis managers say will enable tiie banks to keep the deposits the appeal to tho bankers has been made with the utmost secrecy every precau tion was taken to keep them from snon lug that it was an appeal by mr bryan nt all the apparent effort was to make the Illinois state bankers association seem responsible and it was made lv su li a way as to force the directors of the country banks to vote either for a postal bank or the guarantee plan without any alternative in tbat appeal tho bryan managers make lie dire promise that if mr bryan is elected president bis success wl.l mean the end of the effort to secure postal savings backs in the circular sent the bankers the jnestlon is put to them clearly thus evc.y rote east for Taft ls for a postal baviugs bank every vote cr.st for bryan is for a well guarded guaranty of deposit law instead .'. a postal savings bank again lv the bryan circular the bankers are urged to favor bryan because his plnt ijini stands for the guaranty of deposits us cgaiust the postal savings bank the bryan appeal has been made to bankers only and then the presidents and directors of the big banks were omit ted from the list to which the circular was rent appeal to selfish interests on its face the appeal ls to the selfish interests of the bankers for the question is put thus bankers must make a choice whether i the money of the community ls to be de posited m the postoffice or whether lt i shall be deposited m their own banks no campaign document has ever been sent out with greater efforts to conceal its identity and authorship than those made ln behalf of the bryan circular it j vas only the room number given as the ; tiddress to which replies were to be sent | that showed it as a campaign document u all and country bankers were not sup posed to be familiar with the room num bers of the democratic headquarters at the annex and although the whole scheme was distinctly one in mr bryan's interest and was made by his managers the names of none of those managers appears upon | either the appeal or stationery upon which it w.ih sent on the other hand apparently every ef fort was made to give the impression that j a purely non-partisan appeal was being i made the circular itself and the post . curd upon which a reply was asked as veil as the envelope in which the circu lars were sent out all bear the anony mous address of the bunkers commit tee room uoi auditorium annex chi cago 111 lowa committeeman's work room 1164 at the annex lt chauces is that of myron d king auditor of the democratic national committee but he was not the person who really undertook the alliance of the bunkers martin j wade national committeeman from lowi and head of the bryan labor bureau las the matter m charge m fact he admitted last night that he had sent out the circu lars and also that he is getting the re the circulars were sent out at the time ihe jllinois state bankers association was m session here on oel'her 13 ap parently the intention was to give the bankers the impression that the appeal to support the bryan plan in preference to the postal savings bank proposition eiitie from that organization along with the appeal to the bankers was sent postal cards asking them to vote on the question of whether they preferred the guaranty plan or postal savings banks and when the first inkling got abroad that ach an appeal bad been made and that such a vote was being taken it was denied point blank that the bryan headquarters hnd any thing to do with lt or knew any thing about it it was only when bankers who had received the circular made them pti'.dic that the real truth was learned mack's act reveals scheme the first intimation of what the bryan managers were doing was given in the private office of chairman norman e mack of the democratic natloi t commit tee mr mark asked m f dnnlap sec retary of the finance committee who was ' then present to rend a letter to several uewspaper men the purpose of lt being to siior that the small hankers are with bryan it was from Â» small bauk in lowa irj'e not given and stated that seven of ac nice directors favored the guaranty abruzzi buys 60,000 worth of jewels at home and disappears believed m rome they are wedding gift and that he is bound for united state rome oct i*s the duke of the abruz zi's whereabouts is absolutely unknown here but it fc fully expected that he will soon turn np in america a report f:#ni milan stales thai le lias bought jlic',ooo worth of jewels from a turin firm which has brought them from paris especially for bis inspection these it is surmised are intended as a wedding gift before leaving his ship the regina eleua the duke presented each officer with a pair of jeweled sleeve links the news papers here publish contradictory reports as to his present location and all evi dently are mere conjecture all informa tion is refused at his liouse near turin and at the ministry of marine the decla ration that no engagement exists provokes mirth here it is stated here that miss katherine elkins has had private instruction iv the catholic religion and has already been secretly received m the catholic church it is stated that the count of turin whose nominal destination is london is really ou his way to new york to meet the abruzzi and wituess the marriage cere mony policeman electrocuted while fixing a light patrolman meets death when he uses feet on lamp policeman edward hennessey of the waren avenue station wo found dead early yesterday morning on the sidewa.k beneath tho elevated tracks of the pan handle railroad at rockwell and fulton streets he was electrocuted m an at tempt to repair a defective arc light i is the belief of tlie police that hennessey when he discovered the light not ai:r;iing attempted to repair it the only approach to the light would be from the top of the structure which is more than ten feet above the ground the policeman lt is believed hung suspended from the bridge and attempted to jar the light with bis feet in doing this he was fatally shocked convent instead of jail for girl letter writer young woman who puzzled postal officials for years to become nun cincinnati 0 oct ig.-krna mccai mont the mt healthy society girl con victed of mailing anonymous letters that puzzled federal authorities for eight years will spend the remainder of her life ln 1 convent her sentence to-day to eight months m the miami county jail was sus pended pending the fulfillment of the promise of miss mccnlmont's friends to place her in the convent of the good shephetd miss mccalmont heard the sen i tence with the same stoicism that char acterized her demeanor when found guilty lof sending improper letters after she has i served a probationary period at the con i vent miss mccalmont will become a nun sothern arrives from london with straw hat thought it comfortable declines to discuss wife's divorce suit new york oct 16 e b sothern â€¢ the actor wore a straw hat to-day when he arrived on the hamburg-american liner deutschland he wore it all the way i across to the great amusement of the american passengers who knew that the open season for that style of headgear lv new york closes september 15 they were wearing straw hats m london when ' i left ana this hat is very comfortable ' i said sotuern he had not heard that his ; wife virginia hatned had been refused a divorce from him ln reno nev because she failed to appear ln person and ask for it and did not care to discuss the matter infatuated youth held on bad check charge oliver roth arrested on request of rich st louis father oliver h roth said to be the sju of a wealthy manufacturer of st louis was arrested last night by detective sergeants mullen anil burns of the central station after be hud given an alleged worthless check for 15 to an official of the american can company who is a friend of the pris oner's father roth the police say came to Chicago to join a woman with whom be is infatuated his father urdered his ar rest he is twenty-two years old roth said the check cashed is a good one kern made Chicago criminals pawn says ex-chief john j badenoch former police head tells how thugs were freed calls him menacetocity declares man who again seeks state's attorneyship blocked authorities as state's attorney for four years jake kern turned more big crooks and thieves loose upon the people of Chicago than any state's attorney before or blnce his time m that ofliee this was the charge made yesterday by john j badenoch president of the j j badenoch company commission merchants who was chief of police under mayor george b swift for two of the four years kern was state's attorney kern's record does not entitle him to the consideration of the voters of chica go said mr badenoch more than 100 of the worst criminals in this part of the country were given their freedom by mr kern after policemen had worked for months and risked their lives to bring about their arrest xue evidence was sufficient to convict m every one of these cases to which i re fer the magistrate before whom these prisoners were taken for a preliminary hearing m each case bound him over to the grand jury under heavy bonds the grand jury returned an indlctmeut against him but the case would never come up for trial freed the dangerous criminals i am not considering the prosecution of j minor criminals but the big thieve j burglars hold-up men and desperate char ; actors whose photographs are m the j rogues gallery who had been arrested i not once iuit time after time these i were the men jake kern turned loose i upon the public thus nullifying the work i of the police the state's attorney's ofllce ls the 1 court of last resort so far as the police i are concerned when the case against any of these criminals who had the friend ship . f jake kern was reached kern or one of his subordinates would appear nnd move to have the indictment nolle prossed there was nothing left for the jndge to do the doors of the jail were thrown open and the thug or thief walked out to begin anew his career of crime these cases are a matter of public record the disposition of each case is shown on the books of the criminal court and the public has access to these records if it is desired to learn what kind of a man is asking to be returned to the office he held twelve years ago action not due to sympathy i would not say anything if mr kern's sympathetic nature had led him to give hack their freedom to men and women who tnrned thieves through dire necessity if he had nolle prossed a case against a youth because it was his flrst offense or an old man because of his age personally i feel friendly toward mr kern and he does to me as far as i know i am not a politician i will not pretend to say what kern's motive may have been i did not know but i had my opinion others can guess about it the same as i did my opposition to kern ls not because of party affiliations it is because we do not want a man in the state's attorney's office who will defeat justice by nullifying the work of the police department there have been good democratic state's attor neys and i would not say a word against any of them were they to run fo the office again as a citizen of Chicago how ever i believe kern should be defeated ! fifteen in audience borah doesn't speak senator's fisk hall meeting m evan ston turns out a frost when i'nited states senator william e j borah of idaho walked into flsk hall evanston last night to make an address on republican policies be found an audl ence of exactly fifteen persons the sena tor had been engaged to speak by the j northwestern university republican club j posters hnd been heralding hla coming for four days and handbills were circulated at the university yesterday announcing the great republican orator the sena tor's disgust was plain forrest hanna presideut of the university republican club explained fifteen persons were not sufficient to merit an address from one so di tiugulshed so the meeting was ad ijourued morrisey president of new railway association grand master of the b r t will re sign place on january 1 p h morrissey grand ma er of the brotherhood of railroad trututnen was elected president yesterday of the ameri can railroad employes and investors association mr morrissey will resign f he office of grand master to take effect jau [ vary 1 after which date he will give j his entire time to his new dut Â» . the association was organized recently to create a better public feeling toward rall raads and to oppose legislation that would ihe inimical to the railroads and employes ' mr morrissey has been an official of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen fori ! nineteen years â€” five us flrst as?>tant grand j ii aster and fourteen ns grand master m . public beggars pacific to be left unprotected i roosevelt orders fleet to at lantic to show faith m japan washington d c oct 16.â€”presi dent roosevelt has ordered the pacific beet to the atlantic ocean to give indis putable proof to tl japanese of his belief ln their protestations of friendship as well 'â– as to convince the american people of his utter disbelie of complications ln the far east likely to lead to war diplomatic conditions have been such since the atlantic fleet read 1 the pacific 1 that the president believes its full mls-i slon has been accomplished the pacific fleet will leave magdnlenal bay about december 1 for the three ! months cruise around south america on | approximately the same date the grep atlantic fleet of battleships will sail for the atlantic from manila via the suez canal and the mediterranean they will meet about the flrst of next april off j guantanamo for record target practice i with the sailing of the two fleets decern ' ber 1 the pacific coast will be left naked ito its enemies if there be any such the ; ! few warships left on the coast will not be i ! more than sufficient to do police duty ! ; among the seal waters of alaska should : i they grow unruly and defy the law the pacific fleet under admiral swin born is on its way to magdalena bay from a cruise to hono'ulu and samoa upon its arrival at magdalena bay it will engage in battle practice abont the same time the atlantic fleet will hove similar practice m manila bay at the | completion of the battle practice at mag j dalena bay the pacific fleet will 6tart for the east arriving off guantanamo iv time for ttie spring record practice should the atlantic and the pacific fleets meet at guantanamo with the ves sels now comprising the atlantic squad ron which will have record practice also lt will mark the assembly of almost the efltire american navy and will be one of the greatest gatherings of naval vessels ever held Chicago woman in white house play mrs lou wall moore gives example of greek dancing washington oct 16 1n a picture of wonderful color made by the red nnifanns of the marine band the blue and gold of army and navy officers the brilliant toilets of washington's most exclusive society women and the classic dress of ben greets woodland players mrs lou wall j moore of Chicago arrayed as a greek j maiden presented a figure to lac that marked her as distinct from the nsetr.l c her presence on the stage on th white house lawn was not absolutely essentia ito the presentation of the playlets past j doras box and king midas she i.p i peared to iuustrate by ex imp â– , the danc ' ing of the ancient greets abou 2 : 000 broker arrested as check swindler detectives seek another of alleged gang which de frauded business men suspected as a member of a gang of check and draft swindlers who have de frauded many wealthy chicagoans ln the past six months howard l browning ai 'â– stock and bond broker at 153 la salle j street and fiscal agent of the twentieth century window company an arizona ' corporation was arrested last night by de tectives johu hill jr of the hill na-i j tional reporting company 240 la salle j street acting for several persons who have : i been swindled had obtained a warrant in i municipal judge dicker's court at the har i rlson street station yesterday charging browning with obtaining money by a confl dence game j browning until a year ago was presl â€¢ dcnt of the browning manufacturing ! company of milwaukee wis motor nianu j facturers lie denies he ls connected ; i with any gang of swindlers and that if ' anything wrong has been done by him i he says it was unintentional i according to george w haines of the i \ hill national reporting company last ! ijune browning gave jasper n stillson j â– a downtown saioorketper and restaurant owner six drafts for amounts aggregat i ing 1,481 which were made out on the massachusetts banking and mortgage company of boston which refused to honor them when they were presented the drafts were drawn by foster hoop er Chicago representative of the muni cipal bond arm of e m deane & co 643 j first national bank building and were given to stillson iÂ«y browning lieuten ant sullivan of the oentral station said hooper is being sought for four other business men were swindled america and japan in pacific steamship war orientals cut rates to eliminate the united states route san francisco cal oct 16.â€”com mercial war has been declared m the pa cific ocean between japan and america the nippon yusen kaisha the most pow erful of the japanese lines and betvily subsidized by the government and the pacific mall steamship company are the rivals the nippon yusen kaisha cut its freight rate 20 per cent and unofficial ad vices say even this figure has been cut m half m the last few days the lowering of rates by their japanese rival has re-j suited m an order from the pacific mail i to its agents m the orient to meet any i reduction the japanese want to drive their competitors from the pacific and then hnndle the freights of the atlantic coast which now go to the transcontinental rail roads with a direct line of steamers be tween new york and yokohama by way of the suez canal they have made heir plans for the suez line and it appears that tbelr firdt move is to cripple the american warships hunt for missing aeronauts british cruisers join german vessels m search follow ing balloon race special cable to the examiner berlin oct 16 the exhaustive search i ' being conducted by the german admiralty â– for the two missing balloons that took i part m the great international race faas so far met with little success the fleet ! iof torpedo boats assisted by the survey ; j ship zleten are steaming in radiating j j lines from heligoland to the english j ! coast word was received here to-day ! that three cruisers of the british home : fleet which are now at queensbery scot laud bave been ordered to assist ln the '. search tor the missing aeronauts there is now little doubt that the herge ' sell was lost ln the north sea a message from the missing aeronauts has been i picked up near osterwanne ln hanover province the message which is without i dute and written on tuesday is as fol ! ows : hergesell 9a m height 2.100 meters direction and place uncertain probably iutar the coast foertsch i a report from hull england to-nlgbt states tbat the german balloon plauen was picked up in the north sea wednes i j day night by an english trawler the ! weather reports show that at that hour and place the wind was blowing from the southeast which undoubtedly drove both balloons toward the open sea the hergesell and the plauen with twenty-seven others started monday in au eudurance contest the hergesell ls now the only one that has not been accounted for there seems little donb.t that the win ners announced yesterday will be accepted by the aero club but as yet the officials m charge of the race refuse to make any official statement until hearing from col onel schaeck wbo made the record flight in the swiss balloon helvetia but who it is said lauded m shallow water thereby faiiing to fulfill the rules of the race which necessitated landing on terra firmu w e corey and his wife snubbed by his sister ignored m wedding list but first wife is invited braddock pa oct ib ellis if you do this thing your way and mine will lie far apart if i should ever have a home of my own you will never darken my doors miss ada corey sister of the -. head of the united states steel corpora tion made this remark to her brother on learning that he had arranged to have his wife laura cook corey d vorce him in order that he might marry mabelle gilman the actress miss corey is about to marry charles f aufham mer and the invitation cards sent out do not include w ellis corey his first wife laura cook^^irey however is in vited by the sistj^b^mircn of honor and has accepted relief train destroyed by forest fire 22 are dead cars leave track m plunge through wall of flame m michigan fate of scores unknown fifteen bodies taken from wreck others from houses m same township ; copper country ablaze two towns m lower penin sula wiped out many others m peril detroit mich oct 16 that the fifteen refugees burned last night with a rescue train will be but a small proportion of the total death toll of the forest fires is apparent to-night already twenty-two persons are known to be dead and scores are miss â– ing m a vast section that is no i ! more nor less than a seething ur:.;u ' two towns have been total - de > stroyed and no count can be made o \ the farm hoases that ha c teen burr - jthe property loss will run icro tha jinillions i and the end is not yet the fiatr a i are still raging m a constantly widen ] ing area and complete news of the :' actual tragedies m their path may i ' never be forthcoming i , wrecked train a pyre ' j the burned rescue train was earning refugees from metz township in i'resyue isle county whleti lies lv the northeastern i part of the lower pculusula it was sent over the detroit & mackinac itu 11 way the catastrophe occurred midway betweec metz and the village of i'osen two families m metz township ar known to have been wiped cut aside from those on the train john nowlckl and bis 4 | wife an aged couple whose home wa ' ' within a few rods of the spot where the â€¢ train was burned and henry kempt bis ' wife and two of their three children died i m the ruins of their homes another sot ' '. of kempf is missing and probably waa itt j clneraled also ' | that many more of tte inhabitants ot ' i metz died iv the hopeless endeavor to tight their way through the roaring flames ana i dense smoke which surrounded them on every side seems certain some of thosi ! who managed to get through say the dvfi cars of the relief train were filled witn ' men women and childien and their bouse ! hold goods â€¢ tarry to save goods . ! fifteen bodies were found ln the charred â€¢ remnants of the cars perhaps a score of men bave straggled into postn a vil ; lage a few miles away the clothing burned from their backs tbelr bodies seared and bla kened and their lung 1 t choked with smoke engineer foster i i eyes were bunted out in the awful fligtp i through the tire and c'ouductor klnvlll ! is m little better shape the anxiety of the villagers to save their ; household goods probajly cost the live i of many of their number the relief train couslsting of three box cars and two stee i gondola cars reached metz lust night ll i the villagers had clambered aboard a r once they might have escaped but many 1 of them insisted on saving some of possessions and the train was delayed loading these ' heroic dash is fatal two miles south of mcl ter saw high walls of flame on of the track a crossing . utilized s a lumber yard sod bad been piled lv thoi i ja track these were all on the only hope was m a id dash h engineer jerked ttn thr v and the train rocked forward bu â– hi tho center of the ro.tr lie â– rails loosened bj the hi and the train jolted over the au into it burned-out culvert stop ln an instant the tra on fire there was little thought ol rescuj leaped froai the blazli i d o-d up the track shielding their faces from the blaze some of tbem go tlirough j many others did not a women and children die of the fifteen who failed to leave '"^| cars eight were children and three v.er;^b women john kouieezuy his wife ano^l three children the oldest only three yearijh of age died together m the horrible trap mrs emma hardies and ber three chll a dren the oldest nine years the youai am eight months suffered the same fate anil awm so did mrs george cicero and her twiia^fl babies & mrcmatw arthur ut uftlat refuge jfl contirjued o 2d pago 3d column li weather forecast m wl Chicago and vicinity partiy jptf f\aj3 cloudy saturday probably showers c fl s \ by sunday night and monday con y y a tinued warm followed bf cooler urn jjjjj sunday nigh brisk southerly winds mtt dont lop around home xn and expect a job to y come to you go after it thru a situation wanted ad m the examiner show em ployers that you mean business the insertion of your ad m the examiner will entitle you to the services of the examiner employment exchange 70 washington st us fifth ay 776 milwaukee ay htnrfcfimmal qmtbmmwmwm lÂ»nniiiin~y is don't worry ffl ' vtyt about that lost article it's so j*;v fytis easy to recover it by inserting a p*^k v"4 small ad m the examinees lost v j w and found column m j phone randolph 2500